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Following disco wig out Rocket On My Feet, the new single is Another Lifetime. Some hot spacey shit, quite a big chorus:





EP ('part of a larger body of work' - so half an album?) is out 29th April:

Track List:
  1. ()
  2. Separate World
  3. Another Lifetime
  4. Rocket On My Feet
  5. The Golden Age
  6. Memory
 
This sounds like it is going to be an EP that gets extended to an album to me, or if not a second EP is planned at least.
 
New single Touch:



Their full on sunny yacht moment.

The Utopia album is due in October.
 
This is already my favourite song right now

Good GOD I love this band! They never miss.
 


Not so much of a big pop moment but this is the album closer it very much sounds like it is suited for that spot.
 
Yet to produce a bad song. I love this band so much.

Touch and Another Lifetime BOTH currently vying for my song of the year.
 


Another big uplifting tune. I've always been most fond of their early stuff but this is shaping up to be the best album I think.
 
It’s truly amazing they’re my favourite band this year. In fact Touch and Another Lifetime might be my two favourite songs so far this year
 
Gimme The Night is fabulous.

I mean I cannot with this band. I need to see them live. Who’s coming.
 
funky said:
Gimme The Night is fabulous.

I mean I cannot with this band. I need to see them live. Who’s coming.
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See you there
 
I saw them opening for Ellie Goulding in 2010 and it’s probably the most I’ve ever liked a show from an artist I’d never heard of before
 
One new song from a deluxe version of the album (I have not bothered with the live versions):



It is a really old song that has been developed over a long period, which is the kind of detail I find interesting:



They appear to have been working on a new album so hopefully that is not too far off.
 
It is a first album outtake, and it does have their sound of that period. More to come apparently.
 
A whole ten track album of pre-first album demos is coming 17th November:



Poet is very Everywhere, especially in the intro. I like it very much. Hopefully the rest of the demos are as good.
 


Poet is apparently the only song they have revisited, the rest are the original demos. A few tracks are more snatches of ideas rather than complete songs, but there is really good stuff here.

Stop Pulling Me Away is the initial standout but I also really like the run near the end of the album, ending with I Hit the Bottom, which is a fitting closer.
 
Also I always liked the original of this and St Lucia have turned in an enjoyably full on remix:

 
He/they have been quite prolific with the remixes recently, and this one for the interestingly named Moody Joody is excellent:



I definitely like it better than the last St Lucia single, Back to You, which was not my favourite.
 
FetchFugly said:
He/they have been quite prolific with the remixes recently, and this one for the interestingly named Moody Joody is excellent:



I definitely like it better than the last St Lucia single, Back to You, which was not my favourite.
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Yes their recent stuff has been crap although a lot of it has been demos and old shit that they've just been throwing out. I hope they reset for their next album.

And I agree their remix activity has been far more interesting. This is their best remix so far IMO!
 
FetchFugly said:
He/they have been quite prolific with the remixes recently, and this one for the interestingly named Moody Joody is excellent:



I definitely like it better than the last St Lucia single, Back to You, which was not my favourite.
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I am obsessed with this now! Do we think the OMD rhythmic reference was intentional?
 
funky said:
I am obsessed with this now! Do we think the OMD rhythmic reference was intentional?
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I hadn’t picked up on OMD but the remix is excellent. I have also been playing the new song on repeat, so good.
 
I love that we're getting a new album as it feels quite soon after the last one, but I'm not feeling the new songs so far. They're interesting, and creative, but they're not sticking with me in the same way. I much prefer their simply made pop anthems.
 
funky said:
I love that we're getting a new album as it feels quite soon after the last one, but I'm not feeling the new songs so far. They're interesting, and creative, but they're not sticking with me in the same way. I much prefer their simply made pop anthems.
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It does feel they're exploring new directions. Falling Asleep I absolutely love, the other two I am not as taken with.
 
Falling Asleep is in keeping with their style of pastiching old sounds, which I'm completely OK with, but in this case they're going after that late 70s European disco sound, which is not really my bag. Reminds me of ABBA and Boney M. I wonder if that's the general inspiration for the new record.
 
My running theme for this campaign is that every song sounds a bit unfinished... some lovely ideas but the result is just the hook repeated over and over and the song doesn't build to anything.

I might need to listen to them all again in a different headspace. I don't think I can quite cope with the idea of a disappointing St Lucia album.
 
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